Latent Dictionary: 3D map of Oxford3000+search words via DistilBert embeddings(latentdictionary.com)

77 points by pps 2 years ago | 38 comments

The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing(old.reddit.com)

54 points by hnuser0000 2 years ago | 22 comments

How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page(bezoscalculator.com)

63 points by TigerUniversity 7 months ago | 45 comments

I Am Leaving(briefs.video)

414 points by tagawa 3 years ago | 532 comments

A briefs.video animated video essay titled "I Am Leaving," apparently about people loudly announcing their departure from online platforms.

France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms(blast-info.fr)

98 points by noplay 1 day ago | 87 comments

Blast exclusive reporting that French PM Sébastien Lecornu asked Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues to prepare blocking TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X before the October 24 protest.

Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you?(eql.com)

138 points by pdonelan 1 year ago | 37 comments

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation(aclu.org)

599 points by mandmandam 1 year ago | 486 comments

ACLU press release reporting that ICE deported three U.S. citizen children who had been held incommunicado beforehand.

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

The case for banning children from social media(newyorker.com)

321 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 496 comments

A New Yorker column by Jay Caspian Kang arguing the case for banning children from social media and examining proposed ways to protect kids.

I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband(themomoftheyear.substack.com)

406 points by minimaxir 1 month ago | 168 comments

A Substack essay by the mother seen in a viral San Francisco Giants game clip, giving context about her husband and family that night.

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard(stevemagness.substack.com)

463 points by obscurette 5 months ago | 494 comments

Steve Magness essay arguing that restricting children's freedom to roam beyond their street or yard has costs, citing statistics on declining independence.

ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program(prospect.org)

443 points by bhrlady 12 days ago | 231 comments

American Prospect article reporting that ICE plans a $100 million ERO ONE program hiring 142 cleared intelligence contractors deployed in US cities.